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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near which village is Mira injured?

2. Which of the following is quoted to lead into Chapter Seventeen?

3. Where does Violet bear her relic?

4. Which of the following does Violet request?

5. Which of the following does Xaden trade for Liam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is expressed as the common protocol for a Navarre facility coming under attack?

2. What is Mira’s signet ability?

3. What is the reasoning behind sequestering cadet leadership for the final portion of Squad Battle?

4. Why does Amber not bear a rebellion relic, despite her ancestry?

5. Why does Rhiannon note preferring morning flight practice to afternoon?

6. To what task is Violet’s unit first assigned for War Games?

7. Why are the Archives starved of air?

8. What advice does Mira offer Violet for aiding her signet in manifesting?

9. What does Neema request from General Sorrengail?

10. Why do dragons generally prohibit feathertails from bonding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the technologies on display in Fourth Wing. How well do they correspond to standards of fantasy literature? What effect on the reader does it have that they do to the extent they do? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

The character concept of the Mary Sue—an idealized female character, nearly always the protagonist, possessing many skills and few if any significant character flaws—originates in fan fiction, but it can be found in no few mainstream works (as can the male counterpart Marty Stu or Gary Stu). To what extent does Violet fall under the rubric of a Mary Sue? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

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